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** For the best experience, download the free Africa Private Equity News app Android | iOS **A MESSAGE FROM OUR SUPPORTERSInaugural SAVCA Fellowship: The next generation of excellence can still applyAccelerate your career trajectory and deepen your industry knowledge through a curated 11-month experience. Read moreHere are summaries of the five most widely read stories the past week on Africa Private Equity News.1. South Africa: Kholo Capital and Tensai Private Equity back Isambane Mining MBOThe Kholo Capital Mezzanine Debt Fund I and Tensai Private Equity announced the provision of R275 million (about $16.4 million) in mezzanine debt funding to support…

Bitcoin gave up its late-week gains on April 12 after the United States and Iran failed to secure a permanent peace agreement.  Summary Bitcoin fell sharply after US-Iran peace talks failed to produce a permanent agreement over the weekend. Ethereum, XRP, BNB and Solana declined as the wider crypto market turned lower today. RAVE rose another 40% and extended gains above 1,000% despite the broader market pullback. The pullback ended a steady rise that started after both sides announced a two-week ceasefire, and it pushed most major altcoins lower. Bitcoin started the week with gains after reports said the United…

Topics Subtopics 1. Introduction to Economics Definition and scope of economics Basic concepts Role of State in an Economy Sectors of an Economy Types of Economies Idea of National Income- GDP, NDP, GNP, NNP, Cost and Price of National Income Comparing GVA & GDP Characteristics of the Indian Economy 2. Macroeconomics Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Unemployment Inflation Fiscal Policy Monetary Policy Economic Growth Exchange Rates 3. Microeconomics Supply and Demand Market Structures (Perfect Competition, Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopolistic Competition) Elasticity Consumer Behaviour Producer…

Wedbush Fund Advisers announced the launch of the Dan IVES Wedbush AI Power & Infrastructure ETF (Ticker: IVEP), a new investment vehicle designed to provide exposure to companies supporting the energy and infrastructure backbone of artificial intelligence. The ETF builds on research from Dan Ives, Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Research at Wedbush Securities Inc., and Seth Basham. It follows the firm’s earlier launch of the AI-focused IVES ETF in 2025. IVEP is designed to capture opportunities created by rising energy demand tied to AI adoption, particularly as data centers scale to support increasingly power-intensive workloads. Wedbush research…

Jurrien Timmer, director of global macro at Fidelity Investments, characterizes the current market environment as “another wild ride,” where each week seems to deliver headlines stranger than the last. Yet despite the volatility, his overarching message is that conditions are not nearly as dire as they might appear, and he remains relatively constructive on the outlook for markets.Timmer argues that markets, broadly speaking, are “pricing in some form of resolution” to the current geopolitical tensions, particularly around Iran, “sooner rather than later,” he told CoinDesk in an interview.Oil ‘backwardation’ While crude prices surged above $100 a barrel, the futures curve…

Precious metals may witness heightened volatility when markets open on Monday as the collapse of US-Iran negotiations keeps sentiment fragile and investors track domestic inflation and Chinese economic data, analysts said.Besides developments related to West Asia, traders will also monitor the US Producer Price Index (PPI), crude oil prices and speeches from several Federal Reserve officials for further direction on bullion prices, they said. Domestic commodities market will remain closed on Tuesday for the morning trade on account of Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti but will resume trading in the evening session.Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said the US…

Denison Mines DNN +0.04% 65 Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities is $391.04 Mil as of Dec. 2025. GuruFocus rates DNN with a GF Score™ of 65/100 and a GF Value™ of $2.29 (Significantly Overvalued). The stock has 5 warning signs investors should review. Denison Mines’s quarterly cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities increased from Jun. 2025 ($68.94 Mil) to Sep. 2025 ($349.00 Mil) and increased from Sep. 2025 ($349.00 Mil) to Dec. 2025 ($391.04 Mil). Denison Mines’s annual cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities declined from Dec. 2023 ($105.44 Mil) to Dec. 2024 ($80.59 Mil) but then increased from Dec. 2024 ($80.59…

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When Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced, with the satisfied air of an industrialist surveying demolished competition, that Israeli strikes had destroyed around 70 percent of Iran’s steel production capacity, he was not describing a military achievement. He was boasting about an act of economic destruction: one aimed not at soldiers or weapons systems, but at furnaces, factories, and the accumulated industrial labor of millions of Iranians over decades. “We have severely damaged Iran’s steel and petrochemical sectors,” Katz said, ordering the military to continue striking what he called “the national infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime.” The framing is…

Every major altcoin fell 25% in Q1 but Q2 starts with AlphaPepe Stage 12 handing early wallets the math that matters.The Q1 report card is in. XRP down over 25%. Ethereum down over 25%. Solana down 31%. Bitcoin down 24%, its worst quarter since 2018. Every major asset in the market delivered the same result through a combination of the Iran war escalation, the tariff shock, and 47 consecutive days of the Fear Index below 15. The quarter that was supposed to carry the post-halving momentum into a sustained institutional bull cycle produced the worst collective performance since 2018 instead.Q2…